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Wow, all the attention was "what bowl do we want to go to?" That is suddenly no so important in the long term.
 
businesslawyer said:
So it must be a holiday week because we are in complete agreement on here. The heat that Edsall took after the Fiesta Bowl for the awful manner in which he left AFTER staying and seeing the season through, as opposed to what most other coaches were doing which was quit and not worry about the bowl game, was always unfair and at times plain stupid.
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Edsall was the worst of both worlds. Biggest game in UConn history coached by a Maryland guy with one eye on his watch. He had a plane to catch.
 
Waquoit said:
Edsall was the worst of both worlds. Biggest game in UConn history coached by a Maryland guy with one eye on his watch. He had a plane to catch.
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Worst than that, while keeping his players in the dark on what he was doing, he forced Jordan Todman to inform his teammates before the game that he was going to enter the draft because they deserved to know he wasn't coming back.
 
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businesslawyer said:
Huh. Let me understand. Instead of worrying about the bowl game, we should worry about getting a coach who can — wait for it — get us back to bowl games.

Not picking on you — I hear this all the time — but it’s never made sense for me. It’s the European football equivalent of not playing your best players midweek in Champions League games so we can save them for domestic leagues to make sure we can quality for the champions league again.
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Nah. A bit different. Coach leaves and there will he roster instability. And this is true for every program.

The Mora Husky program finished today. T8me to build anew program and dedicate as much time and resources to build the new program starting today.

A bowl win is much less critical than establishing a new program.

I wish there was a known way to finish a season strong with a coach who leaves and roster in flux and simultaneously search for a new coach amd build a new foundation, but I don't know how of it.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Nah. A bit different. Coach leaves and there will he roster instability. And this is true for every program.

The Mora Husky program finished today. T8me to build anew program and dedicate as much time and resources to build the new program starting today.

A bowl win is much less critical than establishing a new program.

I wish there was a known way to finish a season strong with a coach who leaves and roster in flux and simultaneously search for a new coach amd build a new foundation, but I don't know how of it.
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Because it’s two things on different planes. The AD has to find the next coach. While he’s looking, and while the players are wondering if other schools will want to pay them more money (or some money), they have a game to win. I don’t understand how AD Dave working hard affects the players preparation. They have one less coach to help them. They’ll survive. As for what happens to their careers, almost every FBS player is worried about that coach leaving or not.
 
businesslawyer said:
Huh. Let me understand. Instead of worrying about the bowl game, we should worry about getting a coach who can — wait for it — get us back to bowl games.

Not picking on you — I hear this all the time — but it’s never made sense for me. It’s the European football equivalent of not playing your best players midweek in Champions League games so we can save them for domestic leagues to make sure we can quality for the champions league again.
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I’m probably in the minority, but I’m not just a UConn sports fan, I’m a UConn fan. It’s our state university and a huge source of pride in so many ways. Of course, I want to win the bowl game, but what I really want is to get this AD into a major conference so that the whole university can benefit from it.

We’ve got to get a coach in here asap and get back to recruiting. If we can play in and win a bowl this year, great, but that’s secondary to what I’m really pulling for when I say I’m a fan. I want to stay relevant, I want to hear Pat McAfee talking about UConn next season saying what a hell of job so and so has done taking over after Jim Mora. I’m desperate to keep this going and move up in the world. If we lose half our players and get our butts kicked in the bowl, so be it. That’s one game. I’m worried about the years ahead.
 
businesslawyer said:
Huh. Let me understand. Instead of worrying about the bowl game, we should worry about getting a coach who can — wait for it — get us back to bowl games.

Not picking on you — I hear this all the time — but it’s never made sense for me. It’s the European football equivalent of not playing your best players midweek in Champions League games so we can save them for domestic leagues to make sure we can quality for the champions league again.
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Arsenal played its best guys today. Just say’n
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Worst than that, while keeping his players in the dark on what he was doing, he forced Jordan Todman to inform his teammates before the game that he was going to enter the draft because they deserved to know he wasn't coming back.
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Wow! Some people still don't understand the nuances of why that whole Fiesta Bowl keeping players "in the dark" - RE not announcing his intent to leave until he was at the Maryland introduction press conference - went down the way it did? Geez, Jim Mora tells players and staff, Jim Mora no longer coaching UConn at bowl game, Colorado State not giving a sheet about any UConn procedural eventualities, life going on at CSU business as usual. RE didn't want that for his UConn team and Maryland was not gonna permit a leak from UConn people.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Nah. A bit different. Coach leaves and there will he roster instability. And this is true for every program.

The Mora Husky program finished today. T8me to build anew program and dedicate as much time and resources to build the new program starting today.

A bowl win is much less critical than establishing a new program.

I wish there was a known way to finish a season strong with a coach who leaves and roster in flux and simultaneously search for a new coach amd build a new foundation, but I don't know how of it.
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A bowl win is always valuable. It helps put UConn football out there for the entire nation to see. Make the right hire and things will be fine. The blue print for how to do it has been revealed this season.
 
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TouchdownHusky said:
A bowl win is always valuable. It helps put UConn football out there for the entire nation to see. Make the right hire and things will be fine. The blue print for how to do it has been revealed this season.
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A bowl win would only matter if the opponent also cared. Beating an indifferent UNC last year did nothing but provide the anti-UNC contingent with more fodder to laugh at how far they had fallen: losing to UConn.

The goal under Mora was to no longer be embarrassingly bad. That has been achieved. This season achieved their limited goals.

Nothing matters now but similar "success" under a new coach to show some sense of sustainability. In a way, Mora leaving did the school a favor. No one was going to trust the not-embarrassingly-bad quality of UConn football until it could be achieved under a new coach -- and now UConn has that opportunity.
 
Of course it's about next year once the regular season ends for teams outside the CFP. The bowl game and getting that 10th win do matter though and it is a big deal. Go tell these 37 seniors that it doesn't matter.

This is an opportunity for the seniors to get the team together for a players only meeting. Say something along the lines of, "we're the reason Jim Mora got the job he did and we're the reason we're gonna win the bowl and get that 10th win and we're gonna rally behind Sammis".

I understand this frustration our fanbase has at the moment obviously but I'm a bit disappointed in the doom and gloom UConn fans have now about this bowl game. Players move on and coaches move on all the time it's reality. These are grown men they don't need their hand held by Mora they are playing in this bowl game they didn't get this far to sit out 1 game.
 
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TouchdownHusky said:
A bowl win is always valuable. It helps put UConn football out there for the entire nation to see. Make the right hire and things will be fine. The blue print for how to do it has been revealed this season.
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If most of our players decide to play in the bowl and I looking at the Offense, then I’m confident that Sammis gives the Offense a chance to be successful. I have no idea what the Defense will bring. I saw that Chadwick entered the portal. I assume a lot of players will enter the portal, and I would do the same until I know who my coaches will be next year.
 
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ec33 said:
A bowl win would only matter if the opponent also cared. Beating an indifferent UNC last year did nothing but provide the anti-UNC contingent with more fodder to laugh at how far they had fallen: losing to UConn.

The goal under Mora was to no longer be embarrassingly bad. That has been achieved. This season achieved their limited goals.

Nothing matters now but similar "success" under a new coach to show some sense of sustainability. In a way, Mora leaving did the school a favor. No one was going to trust the not-embarrassingly-bad quality of UConn football until it could be achieved under a new coach -- and now UConn has that opportunity.
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UNC players cared, they were auditioning for their new coach (think he didn't watch game tape). UConn just whipped their as-is. Maybe it was the cold weather that caused the "indifference".
 
ec33 said:
A bowl win would only matter if the opponent also cared. Beating an indifferent UNC last year did nothing but provide the anti-UNC contingent with more fodder to laugh at how far they had fallen: losing to UConn.
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Disagree... UConn has beaten the drum and most of the national articles talk about 3 P4 wins in the last two years. UNC is one of those wins. I don't care who does/does not show up for the other team, if the opponent is a P4, even a disinterested one, decimated by the portal; a UConn victory is a great thing for changing the narrative. If the opponent is G5 (or G6 if you count the returning Pac-##) there is no real benefit to the narrative for the win (except this year, where it allows us to claim a 10-win season for the first time) and a loss can damage the narrative.
 
ScottVib said:
Disagree... UConn has beaten the drum and most of the national articles talk about 3 P4 wins in the last two years. UNC is one of those wins. I don't care who does/does not show up for the other team, if the opponent is a P4, even a disinterested one, decimated by the portal; a UConn victory is a great thing for changing the narrative. If the opponent is G5 (or G6 if you count the returning Pac-##) there is no real benefit to the narrative for the win (except this year, where it allows us to claim a 10-win season for the first time) and a loss can damage the narrative.
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Fully agree. If the losing team doesn’t bring their A game for whatever reason, that’s not the winning team’s problem.
 
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